Bible Translations Into Swedish
Several Swedish Bible translations have been made over the centuries. Until the Reformation, a Latin Bible was used, but Gustav Vasa, who converted Sweden to Lutheran Protestantism, ordered the first translation into the Swedish tongue.
Several translations have been made since then, including:
Read more about Bible Translations Into Swedish: Official Government-sanctioned Translations, Used By The Lutheran Church of Sweden, Other Swedish Translations, Comparison
Famous quotes containing the words bible and/or translations:
“The dog is mentioned in the Bible eighteen times—the cat not even once.”
—W.E. Farbstein. Quoted in “Hundkeit,” Mondo Canine, ed. Jon Winokur, Dutton (1991)
“Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling block comes!”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 18:7.
Other translations use “temptations.”